“ #Alabama cannot prosecute doctors and reproductive health organizations for helping patients travel out of the state to obtain #abortions, a federal judge ruled on Monday. Alabama has one of the strictest abortion bans in the U.S.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/us/politics/alabama-abortion-prosecution.html
After living in #Alabama & #Oklahoma and half living in #Tennessee and #Texas, it's so much nicer to live in a state with a decent (not corrupt, not bigoted, not hateful) Governor.
Now let's get a President that's *not* doing everything to destroy our country.
Stupidville-Gate
“It’s gonna be a slow pain first before we get the gain.”
— Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), discussing tariffs on Fox Business.
#Alabama Won’t Say Student Alireza Doroudi’s Name. We Must. | The Nation
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/alabama-alireza-doroudi-ice/
University of #Alabama graduate student detained by ICE, school says. “#Alireza Doroudi, a doctoral student from #Iran studying mechanical engineering, is currently being held in a county jail, awaiting transfer to an #immigration facility, his attorney... Doroudi was taken into custody by #ICE at 3 am Thursday at his home... the student has "not been arrested for any crime, nor has he participated in any anti-government protests." | ABC https://abcnews.go.com/US/university-alabama-graduate-student-detained-ice-school/story?id=120220787 #arbitrarydetention
‘Dagger through the heart’: outcry as #ICE detains University of #Alabama phd student from Iran on a student visa #Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/26/ice-university-of-alabama-doctoral-student
US immigration officials detain doctoral student at University of Alabama https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/26/ice-university-of-alabama-doctoral-student #Trumpadministration #USuniversities #USimmigration #USeducation #USpolitics #Alabama #USnews
Rod Smith, a #veteran and extremely brave resister in #Alabama, is saying that people come up to him in the street and thank him for speaking out-- they say they'll lose their jobs if they speak against #Trump but they are very grateful to him.
He says that even in deep red states there are a lot more people than you realize who are supporting the #resistance
Hats off to all the brave people speaking up in #MAGA counties and states!
"When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman" is a song by #DrHook. It was recorded at #MuscleShoalsSoundStudio, #Alabama. Written by #EvenStevens, who followed producer #RonHaffkine into the studio bathroom to pitch him the song, "When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman" which first appeared on the band's 1978 album Pleasure and Pain. In 1979 the song belatedly became an international hit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCJpzpd-8us
Today in Labor History March 25, 1931: The authorities arrested the Scottsboro Boys in Alabama and charged them with rape. The Scottsboro Boys were nine African American youths, ages 13 to 20, falsely accused of raping two white women. A lynch mob tried to murder them before they had even been indicted. All-white juries convicted each of them. Several judges gave death sentences, a common practice in Alabama at the time for black men convicted of raping white women. The Communist Party and the NAACP fought to get the cases appealed and retried. Finally, after numerous retrials and years in harsh prisons, four of the Scottsboro Boys were acquitted and released. The other five were got sentences ranging from 75 years to death. All were released or escaped by 1946. Poet and playwright Langston Hughes wrote it in his work Scottsboro Limited. And Richard Wright's 1940 novel Native Son was influenced by the case.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #scottsboroboys #racism #lynching #rape #prison #langstonhughes #richardwright #novel #naacp #communism #books #author #writer #fiction #alabama #BlackMastadon @bookstadon
Alabama board defunds local library in first action under new book ban law https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/24/alabama-fairhope-public-library-book-bans #Republicans #USbookbans #USpolitics #Alabama #Culture #USnews #Books
#Alabama board defunds local #library after complaints over ‘#inappropriate’ books
By KIM CHANDLER
Updated 11:44 PM EDT, March 21, 2025
Excerpt:
"'I think that the GOP chair on the State Library Board is forcing the removal of books just because of anti-library extremists. I think that’s ignoring the voices of Fairhope taxpayers and library users,' said Amber Frey of #ReadFreely Alabama, an organization that has opposed the restrictions.
"The action against the Fairhope Library is the first taken under a new Alabama law and 2024 administrative code changes that say to receive state funding, local libraries must have policies to safeguard youth from 'sexually explicit or other material deemed inappropriate for children or youth.'"
https://apnews.com/article/library-content-battles-alabama-funding-571d58e060fbe0b25b2317a0bf99c467
#Censorship #BannedBooks #Libraries #LibraryNews
@nazokiyoubinbou #HurricaneHelene devastates southeastern US, millions without power
Sept 29, 2024
"Damage estimates ranged from $15 billion to more than $100 billion, insurers and forecasters said over the weekend.
"The National Weather Service said conditions would “continue to improve Sunday” as it warned of possible “long-duration power outages”.
"Helene slammed into Florida on Thursday as a Category 4 hurricane and surged north, gradually weakening but leaving a trail of destruction: uprooted trees, downed power lines and homes damaged by mudslides.
"The Federal Emergency Management Administration (#FEMA) said on Saturday it granted emergency declarations in six states – #Alabama, #Florida, #Georgia, #SouthCarolina, #NorthCarolina and #Tennessee – 'to assist these states with preparation and response efforts in the immediate aftermath of the storm'."
Today in Labor History March 21, 1965: 3,200 people began the third march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to protest racial violence. Earlier efforts to hold the march had failed when police attacked demonstrators and a minister was fatally beaten by a group of Selma whites. The five-day walk ended March 26, when 20,000 people joined the marchers in front of the Alabama state Capitol in Montgomery. This time they were defended by national guards and FBI agents. Soon after, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
![The third Selma Civil Rights March frontline. From far left: John Lewis, an unidentified nun; Ralph Abernathy; Martin Luther King Jr.; Ralph Bunche; Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel; Frederick Douglas Reese. Second row: Between Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Bunche is Rabbi Maurice Davis. Heschel later wrote, "When I marched in Selma, my feet were praying." Joseph Ellwanger is standing in the second row behind the nun. By http://www.dartmouth.edu/~religion/faculty/heschel-photos.htmlThis URL is [as of Sept. 17, 2014] a dead link; Therefore, for a web.archive.org (Wayback machine) "snapshot" of this URL, please (feel free to) refer to this "archived" copy: "Heschel Selected Photos". the Trustees of Dartmouth College [faculty] [Department of Religion]. Archived from the original on Sep 17, 2014. Retrieved Sep 17, 2014., Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5004303](https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/200/711/692/155/418/original/15195a5cbf765b09.jpg "The third Selma Civil Rights March frontline. From far left: John Lewis, an unidentified nun; Ralph Abernathy; Martin Luther King Jr.; Ralph Bunche; Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel; Frederick Douglas Reese. Second row: Between Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Bunche is Rabbi Maurice Davis. Heschel later wrote, \"When I marched in Selma, my feet were praying.\" Joseph Ellwanger is standing in the second row behind the nun. By http://www.dartmouth.edu/~religion/faculty/heschel-photos.htmlThis URL is [as of Sept. 17, 2014] a dead link; Therefore, for a web.archive.org (Wayback machine) \"snapshot\" of this URL, please (feel free to) refer to this \"archived\" copy: \"Heschel Selected Photos\". the Trustees of Dartmouth College [faculty] [Department of Religion]. Archived from the original on Sep 17, 2014. Retrieved Sep 17, 2014., Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5004303")
New green battery tech - from red state Alabama
Doesn't require cooling, a big downside of lithium ion batteries.
Also cheaper to produce.
From inventor of Super Soaker.
He's also Tuskegee Institute engineer involved with stealth bomber, bunch of other stuff.
Cannot make this stuff up!
#battery #EV #storage #cleanenergy #electrification #innovation #Alabama #climatechange #climatehope
#BrandonGill's measure is co-sponsored by Reps. #EliCrane (R-#Arizona), #BuddyCarter (R-#Georgia), #MikeCollins (R-GA), #BarryMoore (R-#Alabama) & #AndrewClyde (R-GA).
#Republicans have also moved to #impeach federal judges Paul Engelmayer, John McConnell Jr., John Bates & Amir Hatem Mahdy Ali — all for ruling in some way against #Trump.
